19th May 2017
Newsletter 28
Dear Parents,
Keeping children safe, in every aspect of their school life is the priority for every adult associated with school. There
have been a lot of changes to safeguarding practices and it’s always high on our agenda each week at staff meetings
so that it is kept uppermost in our thinking and remains in our consciousness. At this time of year, Governors
monitor safeguarding and, as part of the school’s leadership team, they help to complete a safeguarding audit from
Hampshire County. This annual check does rather focus the mind on our day to day systems and practices to ensure
that we are all doing the same and that children really DO feel safe, otherwise it becomes assumed and that is not
good enough at all!
Governor monitoring this week by two Governors, has shown that our safeguarding is a strong feature of our school
and well embedded by everyone involved with the children as well as the children themselves. Children who spoke
to Governors could all name an adult they would speak to should they be concerned about anything and could, in
many circumstances, give an example of when this had been effective. They also felt school was safe – yay!
Kind regards,
Emma Jefferies
Headteacher
Lego Batman movie,
Stockbridge Town Hall THIS
SUNDAY 2 showings: 2pm &
4.15pm
Tickets available from Miriam
White or
[email protected]
Stockbridge School Summer Sizzler
21st July at 5:30
FOSS will be hosting an End of Term BBQ for some fun in the (fingers
crossed) sun!
This should be a fun evening for adults and children but we will be
looking for lots of helpers for cooking, manning the bar, temporary
tattoos, bouncy castle, and lots more! Please look out for notices to sign
up for help on the evening, and any suggestions of activities and
entertainment are welcomed.
We would love to have a parent band so any of you who play and would
love a bit of a jam session on the night please let one of us know.
Emma Lambert on 07900 581 871
Walk to school week
Despite a quiet walking bus all week,
there have been many more attempts at
walking into school from a bit further
away than normal – thank you for all the
efforts with this as we know it adds time
onto your morning.
Children have been scooting, walking and
cycling in from home and from further
and further down the high street.
Well done walkers!
INSET day next week
The last of our five INSET
days will be NEXT FRIDAY.
INSET dates for next year will be
announced after the half term.
Talent show
Hopefully you will have caught sight of
the talent show poster that has
appeared around school this week.
We will be asking children to sign up
for their act next week so that we can
organize the week and have in
concrete what children will be doing. I
have had many excited Year 1s and 2s
already tell me so I know there is a lot
of planning going on already!
DIARY DATES
New dates are added each week in bold.
*means further details will be sent.
Date
Time
Event
All day
14:00
&
16:30
All day
All day
4-5.30pm
All day
Targets home
Stockbridge Cinema presents Lego Batman
movie for all children
Last piano lesson this term with Mrs Waters
Clatford class at Longleat
Rounders match at Test Valley
INSET day for school and pre-school
08:50
14:30
4-5.30pm
9am
All day
2.30pm
1pm
7pm
2.30pm
All day
9am
All day
Back to school and pre-school
Talent show begins
Tri Golf competition Y3 & 4 team at Broughton
Church assembly – no busy bees
Stockbridge Fete on the football grounds
Transition #1 for new Year R children
Area sports for KS2 at King’s Somborne
Parent Forum
Transition #2 for new Year R children
Targets home for the last time
Live Music concert for children – inspiration?!
Flower festival in St Peter’s Church – children
will be exhibiting their work
Transition #3 for new Year R children
Year 3 & 4 Dance festival at Test Valley
School Council update
May
Fri 19th
Sun 21st
Wed 24th
Thurs 25th
Fri 26th
June
Mon 5th
Wed 7th
Thurs 8th
Sat 10th
Thurs 15th
Mon 19th
Tues 20th
Wed 21st
Fri 23rd
23rd &
24th
Wed 28th
Thurs 29th
WHITSUN HOLIDAYS 29th May – 2nd June
2.30pm
All day
July
Tues 4th
All day
9.15am
Thurs 6th
Am
9am
Fri 7th
15:15
18:00
Mon 10th – Fri 14th All
week, every morning
Wed 19th
2.15pm
Evening
Thurs 20th All day
Fri 21st
Evening
Mon 24th
1pm
Mon 24th & Tues 25th
Tues 25th
11am
1pm
Wed 26th
All day
Year 6 Test Valley Transition day
Transition #4 for new Year R children
Moving up morning for all school children
Mini first aid for parent’s course
Church assembly
Reports come home to parents
Year 3 camp out on school field
Year 4 swimming at Farleigh school – this is in
preparation for their Year 5 residential and
replaces the swimming at the now closed,
Andover pool.
Transition #5 for new Year R children
Summer play
PROVISIONAL YEAR 6 TREAT DAY
Summer Sizzler
Sports day
Last 2 days of school in new classes for next year
Leavers service and end of year picnic
School closes at 1pm
1st day of holidays
This Tuesday, Miss Tregunna and our KS2 school
councillors attended a cluster wide event with school
councillors from our seven cluster primaries plus
councillors and the head boy and girl from Test Valley
School.
The idea is that children who hold this responsible role in
school all work together annually to understand their
collective roles and share best practice.
James Howard and Katie Robinson write an account of
their morning at Test Valley:When we arrived, all the children sat in two rows of
chairs, facing each other. After we had chatted to the
people opposite us, one row moved along two seats and
we chatted to them. We did this until we had spoken to
everybody there. We were then put into groups with
people from different schools. We shared our ideas that
we have had for things like fundraising and lunch time
games and talked about how we can improve our school
environment. Each school was given a copy of School
Councillors Guidance rules. This will go onto our School
Councillors notice board in the hall. We then had the
opportunity to talk to some Test Valley students to ask
them questions about the senior school and they also
showed us the pool!
It was a really enjoyable morning.
Pre-School news
To save pre-school parents a bit of time trawling through the whole newsletter, each week will have a dedicated ‘pre-school’ section in. Please do read the rest of
the newsletter though as it’s what your child will hopefully be moving into and there will be bits that are relevant for you.
Staffing
Learning & playing
Thank you for bearing with us this week as we have had
lots of staff illness which has been unfortunate but
unavoidable.
You’ll be pleased to know that Mrs McInnes begins
working with us on Tuesday. She will be spending
Monday in school with our Early Years team and going
through policies and child protection briefings so that she
is prepared for going into pre-school.
As there are only 4 days left until the end of term, we will
reassign any children to key worker groups after half
term if needs be.
This week children have been thoroughly engrossed
in creative crafts using glitter, pom poms, glue and
feathers, making dens; rockets, army bases and
castles and watching birds and noticing the nature
around school.